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University scapegoats still need to get houses in order

Yesterday’s Higher Education Summit heard a system based on decades of massive expansion, loan-funded students and big injections of foreign students is coming to a watershed.

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University bosses fear their $48 billion a year export bonanza in teaching foreign students is being sacrificed by the Albanese government to avoid being wedged by the Coalition on immigration and housing costs in this pre-election year.

That’s despite Education Minister Jason Clare coming to The Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit yesterday to say that he has no intention of shrinking higher education exports.

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